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Fanless industrial PC integrates Jetson Orin Nano 8GB and M.2 expansion

MSI has detailed the MS-C9ZA, a compact fanless Edge AI Box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 8GB module. The industrial system provides dual Gigabit Ethernet, 256GB SSD storage, M.2 NVMe expansion, isolated GPIO, CAN, UART and I2C interfaces, along with optional IEEE 802.3af PSE, 5G, and out-of-band management expansion.

wolfSSL webinar explores wolfIP network driver and RTOS integration

wolfSSL will host a September 30 webinar titled “Porting wolfIP: From Network Drivers to RTOS Integration,” focused on adapting the company’s deterministic TCP/IP stack to new network hardware and real-time operating systems.

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Mozilla Firefox 156 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Firefox 156 include improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images that are scaled down to fit a page, improved dragging of inline images to a new position in a rich-text editor, replacing it with a long line of text instead of moving it, and improved high-sample-rate FLAC audio in MP4 playback.

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Shelly 3.1.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds More Improvements

Coming a week after Shelly 3.1.3, the Shelly 3.1.4 release continues to improve the native builder with support for more complex PKGBUILDs, more reliable detection of required files, support for sources that share the same filename, support for cloning Git sources from their original URLs, and improved support for Anydesk, Mandolin, Remora, and Pi.

Shotwell 0.33 Open-Source Image Viewer for GNOME Is Here with GTK4 Port

The biggest news for the Shotwell 0.33 release is that the application has finally been ported to GTK4 for a more modern UI experience. The GTK4 port should improve compatibility with Wayland, such as drag-and-drop exporting, and overall utilization of modern desktop portals.

DietPi 10.7 Adds Support for Containers with Network and ARMv8 VMs

Coming a little over a month after DietPi 10.6, the DietPi 10.7 release introduces support for containers with a network stack and SSH server pre-installed, support for ARMv8 virtual machines, and support for LubanCat 4 SBCs with Rockchip RK3588S SoCs.

KaOS Linux 2026.09 Released with Noctalia 5.1, Linux Kernel 7.1, and Mesa 26.2

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jun 14, 2026

Updated This Past Day

Microsoft's XBox "Bloodbath" Seems to Have Already Begun (Informally), Studios Allegedly to Face Shutdowns, Layoff Notices Handed Out, 100% Layoffs in Some Cases, 10% in Others or on Average

So is a complete closure/shutdown imminent? (Compulsion Games in this case)
SLAPP Censorship - Part 105 Out of 200: When Bad Legal Advice Results in Your Client, Dale Vince, Ordered to Pay £600k - or 801,930 United States Dollar (USD) - to the Person Frivolously Sued (Lord Bailey of Paddington)

"A judge has ruled that Dale Vince must pay punitive costs to Lord Bailey of Paddington, the Tory peer, over the 'unexplained abandonment' of his" SLAPP
IBM is Importing/Exporting Corporations' Regime of Censorship (Hiding the Wrongdoing) to Free Software Communities

Is IBM protecting criminals in the name of "manners"?

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Links 13/06/2026: University of Nottingham Confirms Data/System Breach, Courts Fuming at Fraudulent Lawyers Who Fling LLM Slop at Them

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Gemini Links 13/06/2026: World Cups and 做人

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Discussing Morale at IBM and Conversations Regarding IBM Layoffs (Disguised as Other Things)

Trolling can be a form of censorship
European Patent Office (EPO) Series: All the President's Men

Gilles Requena,Patrice Pellegrino, and Sandro Mendonça
SUEPO Elections Coming Up, Union Leaders at Europe's Second-Largest Institution (EPO) to be Determined Soon

The staff union of the European Patent Office (SUEPO) is having an election soon
How Long for Can American Taxpayers Justify Bailing Out Microsoft?

How many times need the American taxpayers give Microsoft money for vapourware that's neither necessary nor delivered?
Links 13/06/2026: Microsoft’s XBox Crisis and "Apple Deepfakes"

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Gemini Links 13/06/2026: Why Humans Are Mostly Right Handed and "Getting Things Done"

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